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Join Jesse Ray and the Carolina Catfish with special guest The Hacky Turtles for a Pre-Thanksgiving rock and roll blowout spectacular! If you are going to eat turkey, watch football and nap the day away, it might as well be after you caught two of the best rock and roll bands in Michigan while drinking the best cocktails anywhere in Grand Rapids!

Jesse Ray and the Carolina Catfish is a 2015 Jammie award winning Rock-N-Roll band from sunny Grand Rapids, MI. Founded in the fall of 2013, Singer and guitar player Jesse Ray Carolina started a rockabilly-influenced duo that played numerous gigs in West Michigan. They have also toured as far as New Orleans in the winter of shortly after releasing their debut album “Gravedigger”, winner of the “Best Roots/Revival Album” award by WYCE. “Dead Man Walking”, Released in September of 2015 is the band’s sophomore release. The band hopes to take it’s high energy shows to new places, and faces around the United States and beyond. Influenced by blues, punk, and rock-n-roll with a small dash country; hard hitting guitar, splitting harmonica, rambunctious drums, and crooning vocals will lay in the wake of this band’s performance. If you’re a fan of back to basics or “old school” rock-n-roll, this is a band you won’t want to miss.

The Hacky Turtles hail from the northern shores of Traverse City, Mi. They have been forged from the gritty wilderness of conifer and deciduous guardians covering the lush inspiration and beauty of an older way of life. Harboring an eclectic recipe of alternative funk/rock with a decent dollop of folk and reggae, friends since the recklessness of their youths, these troubadours have shared a soul bond and a common passion for both the love of music, and the performing of it. They are the brothers of the lake water, notorious tamers of the tapping toe, wranglers of the funky feet movers, minions of the night and embracers of the day.